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Since we've put it back into the news, I want to go through the Groomer Clown Story Hour issue by doing a thread on an academic paper they wrote about it themselves. (Will unfold as a reread the paper)
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Image
As (1/2) housekeeping tweets about the paper, here's a podcast I did reading the whole thing with my explanations.
newdiscourses.com/2022/06/groome…
I also explain the background of the educational "theory" in which Groomer Clown Story Hour is embedded in my new book, The Marxification of Education, which adds much clarity to how and why it's happening. (Housekeeping tweet 2/2.)
Marxification.com
The abstract of the Groomer Clown Story Hour paper ("Drag Pedagogy") reveals unsettling themese and purposes. The connect to Freire, "embodied kinship" (new queer families, as we'll see), and grooming into "living queerly" are set up as priorities for the program! ImageImage
From the first paragraph, the paper about Groomer Clown Story Hour is messed up. Deliberately bringing queer subversion out of the "gayborhood" bar night scene into classrooms in early childhood education. Reading kids into filth (a drag pun). All about how to groom *young* kids. ImageImage
Notice how the connection with mainstream entertainment and education in grooming kids is pointed out visibly here. Disney makes groomer content so authority figures at the schools can back it up (and cast doubt in kids' minds about their parents and authority). Important point! Image
Another subtle point that's easily missed: Queer Theory does not seek LGBT inclusion (as usually understood) as a goal. It's not part of a civil rights movement. It hides itself in a civil rights movement to achieve a radical agenda. They resist acceptance!
Cf. @againstgrmrs Image
Maybe you thought I was kidding. No! Queer Theory does not want "queer cultures" "watered down," and Groomer Clown Story Hour only pretends (for marketing purposes) to water it down for your kids. Queer Theory resists gay acceptance and normalization, especially for gay children. Image
A "herstory" literally about Queer men in often-sexual clownform womanface who want close proximity to children in a position of "facilitation" (grooming!). Started in 2015 in SFO. Maybe we need a DQSH Files drop to see if State intelligence agencies contributed!
@elonmusk Image
Literally every paragraph of this paper is completely messed up. They admit targeting autistic and disabled kids, who are at a far higher risk of being pulled into gender-affirming (grooming) care and ultimately sterilized and mutilated in "transition." ¡Y se hablan español! ImageImage
Names needed!

Groomer Clown Story Hour wasn't organic. It has been pushed. It's an active measure of unconventional warfare against our society. Image
Even then, almost two years ago, operational preparation of the environment was occurring in this active measure. I still believe firmly it's a mid-level provocation to either do damage that's allowed or provoke a Drag Floyd event. Both possibilities are covered here. ImageImage
Thanks to the media coverage at controversy, Groomer Clown Story Hour is worth studying, they say. They manufactured that and then used it as a justification for putting it in front of kids. Paulo Freire's generative method features prominently. It uses "generated" conversations. Image
And see? There's nothing bad about Groomer Clown Story Hour! It's just an extension of what teachers already do with young children! But it teaches rule-breaking with a "fun" man in clownform womanface in front of your kids encouraging breaking the rules. Boring people object. Image
See, boring, "unimaginative" (not Queer Gnostic) people don't understand Groomer Clown Story Hour. But the "fun," "imaginative" groomer clowns and your kids can conspire together against those boring people (outside of Queer Gnosis), like sane teachers and parents who object.
Kids and groomer clowns, they say, are more alike than kids and boring adults. It's more natural to children to find affinity with groomer clowns than normal people who reject it.

Groomer clowns will also "push limits and boundaries" with your kids. That should be "celebrated." Image
These people really are groomer clowns and groomer-clown supporters. They just want you to consider how groomer clowns and (young) children might work together in what amounts to "queer worldmaking." ImageImage
What word should be used for this?

Grooming! Image
This is from an academic paper in a major curriculum journal. Image
They *literally tell you* it's a coded message. Groomer Clown Story Hour is groomer brainwashing into "alternate modes of (queer) kinship" and all that other stuff. They're telling groomers and groomer clowns that this is a grooming document and must be read that way. Image
Right after announcing it's a coded message to groomers, they say this: it's about teaching kids "how to *live queerly*." And they live for it. This is a groomer document. Everyone should be pointing to it. Image
It's hard to dispense with anything from this disaster of a document now that we know what it is through the introduction, but I'll get more sparse and hot highlights from here on. To read or hear the whole thing, go read it (top of thread) or listen here.
newdiscourses.com/2022/06/groome…
Gotta take an intermission (maybe until tomorrow) on this thread. Plane is about to land. Got more detailed than I intended! Here are some previews of a few key parts! ImageImageImageImage
Why do they say we need Groomer Clown Story Hour? Without it, education "straightens the child," which makes him more suitable to fit in with the nation and uphold economic productivity. The Marxism in Queer Marxism is highly visible. Image
Notice they frame existence as being "scripted" by dominant forces that need to be resisted. The "scripting" of childhood is what they want to seize control over to "script" it into queer performance. They have to overturn (or queer) developmental psych to do this, and are. ImageImage
See what "queer" means? Identity destabilization and the obliteration of standards of normalcy (and decency) for the purpose of achieving Marxist objectives. It's a political practice of railing against what is for the crime of being. ImageImage
I did a short-form podcast on this exact topic that you should check out: Queer Theory is Queer Marxism. Media Matters @mmfa will probably eventually throw a fit that the graphic for that podcast series ("New Discourses Bullets") is a bullet.
newdiscourses.com/2022/08/queer-…
I also did a longer podcast on similar topics. Your pronouns are "hammer/sickle," and I have the receipts.
newdiscourses.com/2022/03/queer-…
How plain do they have to make it that Queer Theory is not interested in gay acceptance and is actively hostile to gay normalization, both of which it intentionally hides behind, before you'll believe them? It's to "actively destabilize"... your kids, esp if gay/ASD, and society. Image
I repeat. Queer Theory is Queer Marxism. Image
Queerness is a liberated utopia, apparently. This is religious writing. ImageImage
Groomer Clown Story Hour is an active measure in a Cultural Marxism (or, Western Marxism) operation designed to rewrite the cultural scripts of the modern West. Image
Groomer Clown Story Hour makes deliberate use of "librarian drag" and "teacher drag" as disruptive motifs for transforming schooling into Queer Marxist brainwashing. Image
They know good and damn well that Groomer Clown Story Hour is actually Marxism hiding behind dragface. They aren't just maliciously hiding behind gay people but also the art from of drag, which they are, of course, destroying by turning it into a socialist hyperrealist pastiche. Image
After explaining that they are using drag to their specific Queer Marxist purposes, the Groomer Clown Story Hour authors brag about their cannibalism. They're "situating" themselves as "on the right side of history" instead of as its deliberate undertakers. Image
Know how they're always saying Groomer Clown Story Hour is "family friendly"? They mean it but not what you think they mean by it. And they know they're playing people (remember above, reading must be done on multiple levels at once, pic 2), see pic 3 from later in the paper. ImageImageImage
They're not just reading to your kids in Groomer Clown Story Hour; they're also reading your kids. In other words, they're trying to use Groomer Clown Story Hour as an opportunity to discover what might "conscientize" your kids into "living queerly." Image
Yet again, the Groomer Clown Story Hour authors remind us that the purpose of the program is NOT what we always are told it is: increased LGBT acceptance. They repeat this point over and over again for a reason: it's central to their point. ImageImage
GROOMERS Image
As a technical point on the same excerpt, notice how they introduce something horrible, say it's basically the same thing that already happens, then distract you from the real point (Groomer Schools) by talking about high-minded "theories of play." This tactic is often used. Image
Queer Marxism alert! Image
The goal of Groomer Clown Story Hour is to put a male clown dressed and acting as as a sexualized woman in front of kids to teach them to "break as many rules as possible." What are some rules one might think of in such a circumstance, and who would want to break them? Image
This violates one of the Ten Commandments. Actually, it probably violates most of them. Image
I hear the Serpent in Genesis 3. Do you? Image
This tweet won't make much sense to most of you yet, but it will later. This is Hermetic wizardry. As below, transform yourself, so above, change how you're seen by society. As above, new society enforces compliance, so below, new social norms reify your transformation. ImageImage
They're telling you explicitly that Groomer Clown Story Hour pretends to be professional and serious, and is good at the lie, and then say immediately after that it's "firmly rooted in queer pleasure." It's male clowns dressed as fetish-sexualized women in front of kids! Image
I think another intermission is due because this is a long thread! Be back with more of the grotesque Groomer Clown Story Hour paper later! In the meantime, read it for yourself!
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
A little mid-intermission entertainment for you, in keeping with our theme about Groomer Clown Story Hour. ImageImage
This part looks weird but is deep. I'll stay light, though. The focus on potentiality, that which can be brought into existence and actualized, is a tell that we're dealing with poetic mysticism. The magic is achieved through the aesthetics (yuck!) of a groomer clown. Image
The way this magic works is by appealing to the (Romantic) potential of the children's imagination about what could be, here with regard to gender. The purpose is to start its actualization. It's dialectical (negates usual lessons) and Freirean dialogic (marxification.com). Image
The aesthetic dimension is meant to be transformational from what is to what the groomers insist could be if we got out of the prison of our current being. This is (Queer) Gnosticism, and it needs to groom your children into actualizing the fantasies of adult perverts. Image
This part is impossible to understand without understanding the dialectical (Hermetic) process of transformation, but the goal is to groom kids into believing they can see themselves as they were intended in the Mind of God (Nous) before gender was assigned/imposed on them. Image
This part is far easier to understand, though it's the same paragraph. Here, the boring mundane existing world is contrasted with the spectacular divine world, and the groomer clown is the mystic bringing the children into Queer Mind, hence all that "imagination" stuff. Image
What this section indicates so far is that Groomer Clown Story Hour is a cult initiation ceremony into Queer Gnosticism, an introduction to the Eleusinian mysteries of Queerness. If you know how those things work, you'll understand that the word "groomer" hits the mark exactly. ImageImageImageImage
You can see the cultish aspects by the suggestion that there's more knowledge available as you go deeper followed by the stated goal of "denaturalizing gender" through the aesthetics of the initiation. It's an invitation to leave the Fallen world for the Ascended. Image
Aside: The Left is currently mad that I'm exposing that Groomer Clown Story Hour is a provocation (an unconventional warfare tactic posing as an "educational" approach), but... Image
While this steps aside from the mystical initiation into a Queer Imaginary direction, see that its presence is justified through Paulo Freire's approach to education. The Marxification of Education is an important book to read to understand things (marxification.com). Image
Again, we see the initiation contrast between the mundane real and the hidden Divine Queer. Then we're told what the initiation is for, and it's horrific. Losing control, breaking rules, and the groomer's pleasure. It's an Eleusinian orgy in pastiche. They're groomer clowns. Image
Let that sink in. The mere presence of the groomer clown is a provocation meant to induce a Dionysian initiation "orgy" into the mysteries of Queer Esotericism. Groomer Clown Story Hour is religious instruction into a religion straight out of Hell.
The remedy, what kids will be initiated into, is "strategic defiance" (against norms/rules) and facilitated "chaos." The Gnostic character of this initiation cannot be ignored. Being "normal" imprisons children in their own being, from which they can escape through Queer Gnosis. ImageImage
On a more practical level, Groomer Clown Story Hour looks to teach kids to break the rules and is opposed to classroom management. It is therefore anti-learning, but they already told us that too (second pic, both flashbacks). ImageImage
No responsible educator can defend any of this for any reason in any time or place. Image
Question: Do you want a perverted man dressed in clownform womanface to treat your kid like this at school, which is working with them in loco parentis? Of course you don't. It's child abuse. Image
Groomer Clown Story Hour is supposed to teach kids that rules are arbitrary and that enables them to be world-transformers. But it gets worse when you realize it's a groomer clown encouraging this "messiness" with children to take them outside "the boundaries of acceptability." ImageImage
Here's an honest sentence. "Hey, groomer clown, stop grooming children!" "No!"

That might "make revolution irresistible" because it's Queer Marxism (learn more here: newdiscourses.com/2022/08/queer-…). Image
Here's a simple, practical purpose of Groomer Clown Story Hour: to generate (marxification.com) deconstructive questions and facilitate deconstructive conversations within the framing of Queer Marxism. That is, it's to set up the Freirean brainwashing program. Image
Groomer Clown Story Hour is rooted in a "pedagogy of desire" centered on the groomer clown. Gross! Image
So much to say about this! How to be brief?

Rousseau and Hegel are plainly visible, and so the Hermetic Romanticism that only destroys and consumes is at the heart of Groomer Clown Story Hour. But of course it is! Image
More to come later! It gets worse from here, and fast, believe it or not. Remember to read the paper (tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…) or listen to me read it here (newdiscourses.com/2022/06/groome…).
So, Groomer Clown Story Hour is supposed to use "camp curriculum" to "open potentialities" (with groomer clowns?) to encourage shame as curriculum. 😬😬😬

Camp is meant to be in bad taste, by definition. So curriculum pointing towards embracing shame should be "campy" in GCSH. ImageImage
The goal is to teach ironic sass so that kids are taught to "dethrone the serious," which will help them lean into the "play as praxis" approach of the "fun" groomer clown, while seeing sane teachers and their parents as stodgy, out-of-touch bores and prudes. (See: Yoel Roth.) Image
The goal of Groomer Clown Story Hour is to push kids into emotional reactions by leading them into failure and shame and keeping them there until they become sassy bitches who "defang" their sting by learning to revel in filth, to make fun out of it. Emotional manipulation. Image
Grooming kids by laughing about their poop with them. Great for groomer clowns to bond with kids through shared irreverence and impropriety. What other taboo and scandalous topics come later, not mentioned in this paper (which, I kid you not, believes itself to be subtle)? Image
Idk who needs to hear it (groomer clowns won't listen), but bonding playfully with children by making taboo, scandalous, and dirty topics about private things is literally grooming children! ImageImage
Groomer Clown Story Hour teaches kids that society is actually wrong for considering certain things shameful or taboo. Thus it grooms them into expanding their ideas of appropriateness. That might help them identify with "queer figures" like the groomer clown. IT'S GROOMING! Image
Groomer Clown Story Hour teaches that norms are arbitrary (usually false) and encouraged them not to believe in "institutional expectations." In other words, it intentionally removes the boundaries necessary for healthy growth while setting up the groomer clown as a queer guru. Image
Groomer Clown Story Hour relies on critical pedagogy (marxification.com), i.e., is Marxist brainwashing. I'm reading "foregrounding interpretation" as "Is that weird? Who's to say?" from a groomer clown to your kids. Image
Can you hear the Serpent in Genesis 3 again? Now imagine it's a groomer clown winking at your child and asking them to come and see a whole new world, like in Aladdin or some other among their favorite stories, to be written "playfully" together. Image
I bet you didn't think it could get worse, but it gets worse and worse consistently right up to the last sentence (you'll see!).

The last of the five areas Groomer Clown Story Hour addresses is redefining the family (by embodying queerness). Image
You're about to discover that the widespread and often-repeated claim that Groomer Clown Story Hour is about teaching kids gay people exist and deserve empathy is a strategic lie. They're going to tell us plainly too, not just hint at it to set it up here. They're groomers! Image
They're lying about why it's there, and they know they're lying about why it's there.

Groomer Clown Story Hour is NOT about LGBT awareness, empathy, or acceptance. That's just a sales pitch so idiots will let it in the schools. It's marketing language applied strategically. Image
Groomer Clown Story Hour participants belong in prison. Image
Groomer Clown Story Hour is an initiation into Queer Gnosticism. Image
Cutting out all the middle part of the paragraph reveals its point: Groomer Clown Story Hour markets itself as being about increasing LGBT acceptance and empathy but is actually about awakening "queer aspects of themselves" in your kids.

This is deliberate fraud. To groom kids. ImageImage
This just keeps getting worse (and will continue to do so).

"Rather than building empathy...drag pedaogy might enact a mode of queer kinship" and allow groomer clowns to have relationships with children (not "young people") "that otherwise would not be possible."

GROOMERS! Image
Believe it or not, that paragraph finishes even grosser. Your kids get groomed to heal the wounds of the monsters grooming them. Cycle of abuse! Groomer Clown Story Hour is so sick it's unbelievable. Image
Groomer Clown Story Hour has a better idea for your kids than families and healthy school environments that foster healthy growth. It offers a special new kind of kinship between your kids and groomer clowns that represent alternative futures to growing up whole and happy. ImageImage
Yay, the end is nigh! How bad could this be...? LOL... Image
They know they're wrecking drag as an artform (turning it into socialist hyperrealism). Worse, though, they don't care because "queer worldmaking...has long been a project driven by desire." Groomer Clown Story Hour is a project DRIVEN BY DESIRE to make a queer world out of kids. Image
Oh, the humanity!

Groomer Clown Story Hour is "family friendly" in the sense of leaving your real family for your drag/queer "family" on the street.

Groomer Clown Story Hour is literally grooming. Undeniably. A "preparatory introduction" to "alternate modes of kinship." Image
The problem for Groomer Clown Story Hour isn't that it's evil grooming. It's that it might get co-opted by capitalism, apparently because "it looks good " the authors debunk that claim by showing us what it actually looks like, though. Fact check: NOPE! ImageImageImageImage
To reiterate, the problem faced by Groomer Clown Story Hour is that it might succumb to capitalism and lose its "transformative power" and access to "alternate kinship structures." YUCK! ImageImageImage
Groomer Clown Story Hour wants you to know, in closing, that their goal with schoolchildren is to "[leave] a trail of glitter that won’t ever come out of the carpet."

They are groomers. This is criminal. Doing Drag Queen (Groomer Clown) Story Hour should carry felony charges. Image
The end!

Thank you for reading. Read the paper for yourself here, although most of it is presented above. Share this thread widely. People need to know, and this needs to be stopped legally and immediately. Do not give them Drag Floyd!
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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